Save Time in Character Animation in After Effects

Animation Can Be a Fast Process If You Know These Secrets

Want to learn to save time by designing faster? Speed up your animation time with an advanced technique: Rigged Characters. Rigging characters has been used for a few years, but this course will teach you to automate the movements by using expressions (Java code and lots math) inside After Effects. With these skills, you'll be able to move your characters with just clicks and drags.

Learn from 38 lectures & 4+ hours of video content

Use a powerful rig that calculates everything for you so you only have to make a few clicks & drags to change the position of your character

Follow along w/ the included project files & easy-to-follow instructions to achieve this powerful technique

Ask any questions & get responses from the instructor

Get a tour of After Effects if you are new to it

Use the techniques used by professionals at Nickelodeon & Disney

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Important Details

Length of time users can access this course: lifetime

Access options: web streaming

Certification of completion included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Requirements

Internet required

Course Outline

Section 1. Introduction

05 How To Open Project Files - 1:47

02 How to Download Project Files

03 Character Setup In Adobe Illustrator - 6:02

01 Course Overview and Goal - 8:00

04 Get Duik 14.23 to follow along

New Lecture

Section 2. Rigging The Character

06 Rigging The Left Arm - 10:00

10 Put The Left Arm Behind The Character - 7:29

12 Anchor Arms And Legs To Body - 5:49

07 Rigging The Right Arm And Legs - 5:46

08 How To Hide The Shoulder Line - 9:37

11 Put The Right Arm Behind The Character - 10:38

09 How To Hide The Hip Line - 5:43

Section 3. Turning The Head

15 Animating The Rest Of The Face For 3D Illusion - 9:00

14 Animating The Face Shape For 3D Illusion - Turning The Face - 9:29

16 Cleaning The Workspace - 6:24

13 Setting Up For 3D Illusion - Turning The Face - 8:24

Section 4. Setting Up Controllers

17 Setup For Head And Face Controls - 8:14

18 Extracting The Different Parts Of The Face To Separate Layers - 8:39

Using an Editing Software for Animation

Learn How to Use Premiere Pro CC to Put Together the Final Sequence of Your Animation

In this course, the instructor will show you how to use an editing software to help with your animations. Please note that this course is not about animation, but how to EDIT your animations as well as animate your projects better.

Learn from 14 lectures & 1+ hours of video content

Learn to use the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro

Study everything you need to use an editing software for animation

Includes the project files in a zip file so you can follow along & practice

Apply anything you learn here to other types of editing software

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Direct & Produce Animation

Learn How to Guide a Team into Following Your Vision for Your Next Animation

Knowing how to direct and produce can make any idea become a reality. And the cool part is that you don't even need to know how to draw or animate to get started. If you have an idea or joke you want to turn into an animation, enroll today and start making your ideas a reality in half the time.

Learn from 68 lectures & 2+ hours of video

Direct & produce animation with no drawing or animating skills

Guide a team in following your vision

Perfect for anyone w/ an idea who's considering making it into an animation

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

Design Memorable Characters with Strong Personalities & Learn How to Prepare Them for Animation

Picture this: you have an idea that you want to animate, and concepts for characters that will move the story. How do they look? Are they friendly? Aggressive? Stubborn? You decide on your direction, but then get criticized for your characters not looking inline with their personalities. How can you make your characters communicate the personality you dream up? That is where this course can help. Throughout this course, you will learn the theory behind character psychology and how to communicate those emotions through your designs. You'll establish different attitudes using shape, e.g. round features versus pointy features. Once you understand the theory, you will practice the whole process of putting your character to paper. You will learn:

How to create memorable characters

The theory behind character psychology

Four basic areas of personality

How to define attitude

The basics of concept art

Shapes & meaning

Different angles & the importance of using a storyboard

How to trace each part of the body so you have the character well connected & ready to be rigged in After Effects

Includes 33 lectures & 2+ hours of video

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Adobe Illustrator Essentials for Character Design

Learn How to Turn Your Paper Drawings into Beautiful Art That You Can Pitch or Sell

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design and present your characters? This course was created for future character designers and animators who want to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and use those new skills on upcoming projects. You will learn all the essentials you need to trace images, turn paper drawings into presentable products that you can sell, and design characters. Beginners will go from zero to hero following along with the practice exercises — and savvy users will benefit from new techniques you may never have known existed. You will learn:

All the basic interface navigations

All the essential panels

The drawings tools

What tools to use if you have a Wacom Tablet, or for those who don’t have a drawing tablet, then what tools to use when designing w/ a mouse

All the basic drawing tools in detail

How to create a color palette

How to paint your work using the live paint feature

How to add shadows and highlights easily

40 lectures & 2+ hours of video content

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Backgrounds & Assets for Animation in Photoshop

Learn to Use Photoshop to Produce the Images & Backgrounds for Your Animations with No Drawing Skills

In this course, you will learn how to use Photoshop to create backgrounds for your animations. The complete tutorial will show you the techniques to be able to create the backgrounds and visual assets to produce your animations from scratch. If you're already familiar with Photoshop, you can jump ahead to the Background Tutorial to start creating! You will learn:

How to use the different drawing shapes

How to modify your drawing

How to work with layers

How to use the masking tools to create the effect of putting one drawing inside a shape

How to add texture

How to import reference images to trace backgrounds

How to create a 3D effect that helps you create interesting perspectives, using point distortion

Includes 18 lectures & 2+ hours of video

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Sketching for Animators Who Can't Draw

The Fun & Easy Way for Animators (Who Can't Draw) to Learn to Draw

When it comes to being an animator, being "decent" at drawing is likely good enough. If you are just starting, and you are not good at drawing, then this course will be your definitive guide to honing your craft. Inside this course, you will learn:

How to develop enough skill to draw anything you want in any style you want

The difference between drawing & sketching

How to measure proportions

How to duplicate references

How to draw basic 2d shapes & combine them to draw what you want

How to sketch basic 3d shapes

How to draw perspective using vanishing points & perspective lines

How to sketch a 3d scene

How to sketch & design very simple characters

How to sketch poses in 2D

How to sketch character poses in 3D

How to sketch thumbnails for animation

How to draw hands

17 lectures & 2+ hours of video content

Instructor

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.

Make Money With Animation & Design

Be Your Own Boss & Make a Living Doing What you Love

Want to get paid to do something you love? If you are a 2D animator, you could start earning a respectable salary living out your dreams as a freelance animator today. And if you continue to work at it and hone your craft, you could be looking at a six figure career down the road. But to become a successful freelance animator, you'll need to promote yourself, do market research, handle customer service, deal with angry customers, manage your finances, and learn how to market your services. That's why this course teaches you the principles of how to become a successful seller on Fiverr, an online marketplace that has around 20 million visits per month. You'll study shortcuts, and learn from successful Fiverr users. Please note: this is not a get-rich quick scheme, these are real world techniques used by the top sellers on Fiverr who make 40K a month in revenue.

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, 2D Animation 101 is a group of animators who love to share everything they know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Their aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Their courses will help beginners along with intermediate users. They've helped more than 54,000+ students discover techniques and knowledge to start animating their projects.